December 13, 2020 – THE DUMBARTON DEMOCRAT

PROCUREMENT: significant public sector contracts must be open to a range of bidders

December 13, 2020 heaneymedia

Government £10.2m contact tracing deal prompts fears over outsourcing Investigation by Ally Tibbitt in The Ferret December 10, 2020 A multi-million pound Scottish Government contract

COVID 19: MONDAY IS V-DAY FOR CARE HOME RESIDENTS

December 13, 2020 heaneymedia

Care home vaccinations will begin on Monday, says Health Minister Jeane Freeman By Democrat reporter Residents of Scottish care homes will begin to receive the

SCOTTISH TAXPAYERS SOLD DOWN THE RIVER

December 13, 2020 heaneymedia

‘Catastrophic’ failings over Ferguson ferry ‘fiasco’ at Firth of Clyde shipyard There was a man who built a boat to sail away and it sank

LET US ENTERTAIN YOU: DUMBARTON PEOPLE’S THEATRE CAST FROM CHRISTMAS 1984

December 13, 2020 heaneymedia

Something to make you smile this cold December morning. This was the cast of Dumbarton People’s Theatre’s Christmas pantomime in 1984. Picture courtesy Pauline McLean,

JOURNALISM: The changing art of the subeditor: ‘You had to read the type upside down’

By Suzanne Warr The internet may have revolutionised the media in the 21 years since I joined the Guardian, but my role as a subeditor

POLITICS: Westminster first-past-the-post elections “outdated anomaly”, campaigners say

2nd August, 2021 By Elliot Chappell Electoral reform campaigners have described the use of first-past-the-post in UK general elections as an “outdated anomaly” as analysis

BRIAN WILSON COLUMN: LETTING EVERY SCOTTISH CHILD LEARN TO SWIM WOULD BE REAL OLYMPIC GOLD

By BRIAN WILSON If I ruled the Olympics for a day, I would use it to ban anthems and medal tables, both of which seem

NEW WRITING: REVERIES OF A RELUTANT RAMBLER II

Continued from yesterday … Interesting Interiors #4 A missed opportunity for me. The Szechenyi Thermal Baths in Buda Pest. March 2019 (barely two years ago

THE BIG DOPE: A fog of madness, a stinky green cloud, is now descending on America

By Madeleine Kearns Young people are now more likely to consume marijuana than to smoke tobacco. The social acceptance of tobacco is falling, just as

NEW WRITING: Reveries of a Reluctantly Reclusive Rambler

Reveries of a Reluctantly Reclusive Rambler After our daughter’s 40th Birthday Party I had a Slow Sunday. Wandered in the sun out by the banks

CHILDREN: Humza Yousaf reports nursery over ‘racial discrimination’

Health Secretary says an application for his two-year-old daughter was refused twice by a nursery By Democrat reporter Humza Yousaf has said he is seeking

INVESTIGATION: Five-star foreign trips by SQA bosses shelved

By Rory Murphy Scotland’s exam body has shelved its culture of five-star international junkets following an investigation by the Sunday Mail newspaper. The qualification quango

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